The Counting Game 9780008669010 Paperback

Into the woods.Count to ten.Only one of us comes home again.’Sinead Nolan is one to watch’ KARIN SLAUGHTER1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest.Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when its revealed she was playing the Counting Game that day a ritual believed to ward off the forests evils old superstitions send the community into turmoil.One person saw what happened to Saoirse. But 9-year-old Jack wont tell the Gardai. Freya, an English psychotherapist with her own history of grief, is brought in to help the investigators break his silence.As the race to find Saoirse alive accelerates, can Freya make Jack talk? Why is he keeping the forests secrets? And who is hell bent on driving Freya out of Drumsuin before the truth is discovered?The Counting Gameis a deeply haunting, atmospheric and emotional mystery, from an unmissable new voice in Irish crime fiction, perfect for fans of Tana French, Erin Kelly and Belinda Bauer